20th Century
Leading Men
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Leading Men achieves what historical fiction does best. Taking the spotlight from the famous protagonists in history, the novel projects its luminous beam ...Read Review
Fight to the Finish: The First World War – Month by Month
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There have been many books written about the Great War. This one, I’d suggest, be made a textbook for secondary schools discussing ...Read Review
The King’s War
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After the success of The King’s Speech, both as a book and a film, Mark Logue (grandson of the speech therapist Lionel ...Read Review
Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust
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Although Death March Escape is a true-life story, it is structured like many historical novels in two time streams. The ‘historic’ stream concerns ...Read Review
King Edward VIII: An American Life
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The affair was the scandal and the wedding of the century – and the toll it took on the royal family of England is ...Read Review
Spies: Ireland’s War of Independence.
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September 1920, Ireland. Spies tells the story of the War of Independence through the eyes of three children who are thrown together despite their ...Read Review
Night Train, Night Train
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A young boy takes the Dreyfus Hudson locomotive, the night train, in the 1930s or 40s. Sometime during the night the boy falls ...Read Review
Our Castle by the Sea
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Lucy Strange’s second book takes place on the Kent coast during the first months of the Second World War. Petra and her ...Read Review
I Survived the Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967 (I Survived #17)
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This book is a part of the very popular series, I Survived, written for upper elementary students. Each book transports the reader to ...Read Review
The Spy with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers)
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Ilse and Wolf Klein have a secret: their blood is magical. They are accustomed to keeping secrets, which makes it slightly easier for ...Read Review